monster

Atropal

CR 13

Huge Undead (titan), Neutral Evil

Reveal Stat Block

Armor Class

Hit Points

225 (18d12 + 108)

Speed

fly 50 ft. (hover)

str

dex

-3

con

int

wis

cha

Traits

Magic Resistance.The atropal has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Negative Energy Aura.Creatures within 30 feet of the atropal can't regain hit points, and any creature that starts its turn within 30 feet of the atropal takes 10 (3d6) necrotic damage. If the atropal is struck by a vorpal sword, the wielder can cut the atropal's umbilical cord instead of dealing damage. If its umbilical cord is cut, the atropal loses this feature.

Turn Resistance Aura.The atropal and any other undead creature within 30 feet of it has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead.

Actions

Touch.mw 9 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. ({@damage 3d6) necrotic damage.

Ray of Cold.rs 12 to hit, range 120 ft., one target. ({@damage 6d6) cold damage.

Life Drain.The atropal targets one creature it can see within 120 feet of it. The target must succeed on a 19 Constitution saving throw, taking 36 (8d8) necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The atropal regains a number of hit points equal to half the amount of damage dealt.

Summon Wraith.The atropal summons a wraith which materializes within 30 feet of it in an unoccupied space it can see. The wraith obeys its summoner's commands and can't be controlled by any other creature. The Wraith vanishes when it drops to 0 hit points or when its summoner dies.

Legendary Actions.The creature can take 3 legendary actions...

Touch.The atropal makes a touch attack.

Ray of Cold (Costs 2 Actions).The atropal uses its Ray of Cold.

Wail (Costs 3 Actions).The atropal lets out a withering wail. Any creature within 120 feet of the atropal that can hear the wail must succeed on a 19 Constitution saving throw or gain 1 level of exhaustion.

Atropal

An atropal is a ghastly, unfinished creation of an evil god, cast adrift and abandoned long ago. Since an atropal was never truly alive, it can't be raised from the dead or resurrected by any means. Even divine intervention can't breathe true life into this hateful, miserable horror.

An atropal is malformed and unfinished. Its wet, wrinkled, and bloated body is surmounted by a hairless, overlarge head set with glassy, vacant eyes. It constantly drools stinking ichor as it mouths obscenities. Its arms are too slender, with tiny hands ending in cruelly shaped nails. An atropal never walks but always floats, with its atrophied, dead legs hanging useless below it.

Negative Energy Connection

The shriveled umbilical cord of an atropal appears to trail off into nothingness, but in fact, it attaches to the Negative Plane. This connection gives the atropal power over death and undeath. The cord can be severed by a vorpal sword or other vorpal weapon, and doing so weakens the atropal's tie to the Negative Plane.

An atropal can summon vestiges of creatures that died in the Negative Plane, which manifest as wraiths. These servants can exist outside the Negative Plane only by the atropal's sheer force of will, and they quickly dissipate when the atropal is destroyed.

Undead Nature

An atropal doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.